Karnataka Anti-Conversion Law Is Meant For Persecution An Interview of Archbishop of Bangalore Rev. Peter Machado by K P Sasi — 11/12/2021 https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/karnataka-anti-conversion-law-is-meant-for-persecution/
The Constitution itself has its safe guards and there are almost 15 to 20 legal sections under which you can take action in case the freedom is misused. For example, we speak about force, fear and fraudulent activities and incentivized conversions. But for these, there are enough laws . I also say that this new law would be discriminatory to the Christians, which is not a good thing. We are just 2% in the whole country.
If there is force and fear which has been used you can prove it you can that action against them. But that does not need another law. Finally, I as the Christians are being discriminated in many ways and we are a minority. Of course, more and more regulations to bring down the minority status are taking place and full freedom to certain small groups is being given to do what they want, to find out who is a Christian who is not a Christian and this spoils the harmony and peace of the community.
there are two there types of persecutions. The first one is through doubt and suspicion and trying to make it look like we have made a big criminal offence by propagating our religion, perhaps certain conversions also this is the first one. The second one is the open persecution, when certain groups take law into their own hands saying that theirs is the only religion that can survive in India and all the other religions are disturbances. They go and raid places, taking surveys, and making the lives of certain sections of people miserable through many ways.
Ambedkar, a great man who saw the future of the country through this Constitution and he himself converted from the Hindu religion to the Buddhist religion which means Conversion was a basic part of the constitution.
If the same people who are given the right to vote and you trust them to vote for a particular person like a politician today, don’t you think that they can be trusted to choose a God or a religion of their own choice with their full heart and full mind? Where is the force and where is the incentive? But I am open to it and if there are certain instances you have found, definitely action must be taken against them